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L. HENKLE. WICK RAISER FOR LAMPS.

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L. HENKLE.

WIGK RAISER FOR LAMPS. No. 398,725. Patented Feb.'26, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD HENKLE, OF ROCHESTER, ASSIGNOR T0 CHARLES STANFORD TTPTON, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

WlCK-RAISER FOR LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,725, dated February 26, 1889.

t) Application filed September 1, 1888. Serial No. 284,328. (No model.)

T0 (0 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONA D IIIENKLE, a citizen of the United States. residing at Rochester, county of Monroe, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vick-Raisers for Lamps. of which the following is a specification.

My present improvements relate to means for raising and lowering the wick of a lamp.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a central-drafti lamp of the Rochester pattern, to which 3 l have shown my invention applied. hollow removable thimble is not shown. 2 is a plan view ot? said lamp. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view through the wickring. Fig. 4: a perspective view of my improved lamp, the burner and draw-bar being raised slightly from their normal positions.

The bowl or tount l is shown provided with the customary central-draft tube, 2, which the wick 3 surrounds. The outer wall of the nick-chamber is made by the ring or cylinder l, carried by the shell or case 5 of the burner, which forms a chimney-support. is removably applied to the t'ountr 1 by bayonet or similar joint.

(3 is the wick-rod or draw-bar, screw-threaded at its lower part to enter a correspondingly-threaded hole in an arm, 7, of the wickring 8, which tightly clasps the wick. The

tube 2 guides the wick and its ring in their 2 vertical motion. The upper end of the draw bar 6 has hearing at the outer end of a slot, 9, in the top of the fount, which slot opens into the central opening, 10, of th e fount,

so that the wick, wick-ri n g, and drawbar can be removed together from the lamp. A projection or lip, l, on the chimneysupport 5, which turns to the right position over the slot in the top of the fount, when the chimney-support is turned so as to be locked in place, serves to hold the rod 0 out to its seat in the slot, as shown in the drawin \Vlien, however, the shell or chimney-support 5 is re- The I Fig. 1

moved, leaving the slot open atitsinner end, the rod ti and its attachments may be with drawn, as already described.

Near it's top the rod ti carries a toothed pinion, 12, gearing with a similar pinion, 1 on the upper end of a shaft, Ilt. Said shat't passes entirely through the tount and has c v lindrical bearing therein, which prevents contact of the shaft with the oil of the lamp.

3 The top of the bearing projects above the joint at 15 to support the shaft and pinion 13 in proper position. Atthe lower end the shaft: bears a hand-nut, it.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what-I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The combination of a lamp, the wickring and draw-bar, having screw-threaded 3 connection, a shaft having bearing in the fount and geared to the upper end of the draw-bar by means of spurqvheels 13 1t, and

a shell or chimncy-support having a lip or projection for holding the draw-bar in its The latter at top opening into the aperture 1.0 of the bearing, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the tount having slot fount, the wick-raising draw-bar occupying said slot, and the shell or chiinney-support having a lip or projection bearing against and holding the draw-bar laterally in its bearing, substantially as set forth.

The combination of the fount, draw-bar screwing into the wickraiser, having bearing in the fount and provided with a collar for turning it, the shell or chiinney-support, and a lip or projection on said shell or support bearing laterally against the draw-bar and downward on its collar, whereby it is held rigidly in place when turned for raising or lowerin the wick, substantially as explained.

LEONARD HENKLE.

Vitnesses:

R. F. Oscooi), CH. B. WoLTEEs. 

